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Taiwan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
5813
Threatened
453
CR + EN + VU
Population
23 816 775
Area
36 193 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 63
Endangered 134
Vulnerable 256
Near Threatened 203
Least Concern 1723
Data Deficient 131
Not Evaluated 3184
Extinct 31

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 2026
Animalia 1779
Bacteria 872
Fungi 594
Chromista 352
Protozoa 181
Archaea 7
Viruses 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Taiwan

Bark lice

Liposcelis bostrychophila

Not Evaluated

Hopbush

Dodonaea viscosa

Not Evaluated

Hooked Veilwort

Metzgeria leptoneura

Not Evaluated

creeping-cucumber

Melothria pendula

Least Concern

pore coral

Montipora turgescens

Least Concern

Barnyard Grass

Dactylis glomerata

Not Evaluated

Black Cottonwood

Populus nigra

Not Evaluated

Surinam cockroach

Pycnoscelus surinamensis

Not Evaluated

Gulf sandmat

Euphorbia thymifolia

Not Evaluated

Tropical tobacco moth

Setomorpha rutella

Not Evaluated

Beaked guitar fish

Rhinobatos schlegelii

Critically Endangered

Chinese Packing Grass

Microstegium vimineum

Not Evaluated

Fringe shark

Orectolobus japonicus

Least Concern

Redleg Toughshank

Gymnopus erythropus

Least Concern

Mule's-foot fern

Angiopteris evecta

Not Evaluated

Peruvian pepino

Solanum muricatum

Not Evaluated

Grey worm

Aporrectodea caliginosa

Not Evaluated

Stripe Rust

Puccinia striiformis

Not Evaluated

Moth

Monopis monachella

Near Threatened

Crab-eating Frog/Mangrove Frog/Rice Field Frog/Asian Brackish Frog

Fejervarya cancrivora

Least Concern

pore coral

Montipora caliculata

Vulnerable

Centipede tongavine

Epipremnum pinnatum

Not Evaluated

Beggar-Ticks

Bidens frondosa

Not Evaluated

Green garden looper

Chrysodeixis eriosoma

Not Evaluated

Gecko cat shark

Galeus eastmani

Least Concern

Planctomyces bekefii

Not Evaluated

Brown Ear

Otidea cochleata

Vulnerable

Parasitoid wasp

Spalangia cameroni

Not Evaluated

Blow Fly

Lucilia sericata

Least Concern

Blue-back Locust Lobster

Petrarctus brevicornis

Least Concern

Debelius's Dwarf Reef Lobster

Enoplometopus debelius

Data Deficient

Ze Concept Of Crab

Geothelphusa takuan

Vulnerable

False Sisal

Agave decipiens

Vulnerable

Little yellow ant

Plagiolepis alluaudi

Not Evaluated

lesser valley coral

Platygyra verweyi

Near Threatened

lobed cactus coral

Lobophyllia serrata

Endangered

Redlegged ham beetle

Necrobia rufipes

Least Concern

river poisontree

Excoecaria agallocha

Least Concern

Eurasian Pine Shoot Beetle

Tomicus piniperda

Least Concern

Blushing Rosette

Abortiporus biennis

Near Threatened

Sap beetle

Carpophilus marginellus

Least Concern

Sap beetle

Carpophilus mutilatus

Not Evaluated

Sap beetle

Urophorus humeralis

Not Evaluated

Scaly Shield

Pluteus petasatus

Least Concern

Parasitoid wasp

Pteromalus puparum

Not Evaluated

Shingled Camouflage Lichen

Montanelia panniformis

Least Concern

Shoebutton

Ardisia elliptica

Not Evaluated

Sheathed Woodtuft

Kuehneromyces mutabilis

Least Concern

Chinese Yam

Dioscorea polystachya

Not Evaluated

Jerusalem artichoke

Helianthus tuberosus

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Anisopteromalus calandrae

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Pachyneuron aphidis

Not Evaluated

Sweetpotato whitefly

Bemisia tabaci

Not Evaluated

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Nasonia vitripennis

Not Evaluated

Dwarf Umbrella Grass

Cyperus diffusus

Least Concern

Komvophoron schmidlei

Not Evaluated

Memorial Rose

Rosa luciae

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Leptomastix dactylopii

Not Evaluated

Bottleneck Sea Cucumber

Holothuria impatiens

Data Deficient

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